U. S. commission streamlines ISSN' 0030-8579 internment credit procedure

Washingtoo Those retired or surviv• Slight changes were an• ors of deceased annuitants PACIFIC CITIZE nounced in December by or employees should write National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League the U.S. Civil ~rvice Com• to the U.S. Ovil Service mission to simplify the Commission, 1900 E Street Whole #2,026 (Vol. 88) Friday, January 19, 1979 25c u.s Postpaid 15 Cents procedure for verification NW,WashmgID~DC2M15 ;;;;;;;;.. ~ ..;...... ;; .. .; .. ;; ...... and recomp.rtation of to have their annuities re- credit for time spent by computed to include re• federal civil service work• tirement credit, without HIGHWAY PATROL ers who were detained in deposit, for ~riods of in• the WW2 internment ternment. camps for JaIlIDese Amer• To verify ~riod of in• icans. ternment, the full name of CHP drops 5 ft.-6 height standard Ron K. Ikejiri, JACL the individual, date of VVashington representa• birth, name of camp and Sacnmento, Ca. culty operating the depart• ft.-6 were considered a voluntary basis. tive, reminded the process dates of internment must The Calif. Personnel ment shotgtm and depart• Testimony from others The JACL's involvement is for certain federal work• be provided. Verification Board voted (Jan 10) to mental motorcycle. How• disputed the findings of in this was Jrompttd by ers, current or retired, and will be obtained by the abolish the rrurumum ever, the CHPdid say their the study and stated that Dr. Nancy Wey, who has not state, county or muni• agency or Commission height requirmlent of 5 (t- study was inconclusive accident data did not sup• been concerned with the cipal civil service person• from the National Ar• 6 for state traffic officer• since its test duration was port the contention that inequities of the height re• nel. chives. However, any indi• cadets after a hearing on less than a year, the num• shorter officers have more striction. After investiga• Current federal em• vidual who has previously Jan. 9. Testimony before ber of officers was small injuries. It wac; also point• tion by NatDnal Head• ployees should contact obtained verification di• the board was predomi• and no officers less than 5 ed out that motorcycle quarters, the Sacramento their agency ~rsonnel of• rectly from the Archives nantly in favor of abolish• duty was not a require• JACL took the lead in pur• . fice for infonnation and should submit this with re• ing the height restriction ment and was assigned on suing the issue # forms. quest for credit. # Among the people pres• White House ent was Assemblyman MEET DEBBIE: Floyd Mori, who testified seeks Asians Cal-vet benefits sought for for the elimination. The JACL was repr~sented by Wasbingtm Assistant to Exec. Director out-of-state WRA camp-born Don Ito, president of The White House is again considering Asian Sacramento JACL who al• familiar with political Sacranento, Ca. partment of Veterans Af• so testified in favor of Americans fer high level Assemblyrrnn Floyd Mo• fairs, a person must be a positions within the Ad• and legislativelife that sur• abolishing the height re• rounds her rometown of ri (D-Pleasanton) intro• native of California or a striction. Ito indicated that ministration, it was re• duced AB 1480n Dec. 20 to resident of California at vealed this week by JACL Sacramento, Ca., Debbie T. there was no conclusive Nakatomi, was appointed remedy an inequity in the the time of enlistment in evidence that the height Representa• definition which deter• order to qualify for state tive Ronald K. Ikejiri. recently as assistant to the restriction was related to JACL national executive mines eligibility for Cal• veterans benefits. job perlonnance and A two-hour meeting was Vet benefits. "This legislation will es• concluded Jan. 4 with director. The announce• served only to impermis• ment was made Jan 3 by Under the current rules tablish Cal-Vet provisions sibly exclude most minori• Arnie Miller, director of and regulations of the De- to cover the Japanese the Office of Presidential Headquarters. ties and women from serv• Her duties with JACL in• Americans who served in ing as highway patrol offi• Appointments, and his as• the armed forces, but were sistant, Gloria Molina, who clude giving administra• cers. A state personnel tive support for the execu• Yanagisawa born outside of California analyst also recommended indicated the White House because of a federal man• willingness as President tive director and working the height restriction be with various JACL national date and who enlisted from abolished. Carter moves into Phase IT named new states other than Califor• of his term in office. committees. Daughter ofJim and Bet• nia," Mori added. Major proIX>nent of the Ikejiri said the need for a Debbie Nakatomi PSW director During World War II, all restriction was the Calif. comprehensive registry of te Nakatomi of Sacramen• 2~year-old Americans of Japanese an• Hwy. Patrol, which cited a Asian Americans became to, the Sansei col officer serving mem• cestry, mainly Californi• CHP 1978 study, indicating evident d~ the meet• hails from Sacramento, a bers of the diplomatic John K. Yanagisawa, 32, ans, were uprooted from that officers of shorter ing. JACL at the present graduate with a BA degree corps. of West Los Angeles, was their homes am relocated, height have a more re• time is wor~ on its first from CSUSacrarnento, Ms. Nakatani's service appointed this week JACL mostly in out-of-state de• stricted field of vision and Japanese American Re• and most recently with As• in politics stems from the regional director here by tention camps. A number would be susceptible to in• source Registry, a data semblvrnan Floyd Mori's Sen. John 1\mney cam• Pacific Southwest District of children were born in jury and accident bank listing imividuals for office in Sacramento where paign in 1976, acting as a Governor Paul Tsuneishi. these camps during those Second reasJn cited by career and advisory posi• she worked as an adminis• state coordinator in Los An• The DC board of direc• years of confinement and CHP was that officers of tions in allieve.lc; of govern• trative assistant and legis• geles and San Francisco, lative aide, engaged in gen• working with steering tors at the same time Continued on Page 10 shorter height had diffi- ment. # unanimously voted to eral research and given committees in the Asian waive the usual probation• constituent-related respon• Pacific comrmmities to ary period to give him per• sibilities. raise funds and promote manent status. Action was Previously, she had been voter interest. She also c0- taken upon recommenda• With the Secretary of State ordinated press confer• tion of the Office Person• staff, assisting Secretary ences and a trur for Sen nel Advisory Committee March Fong Eu in her role Tunney and Sen Daniel based on Yanigisawa's out• as California's chief proto- Inouye. standing performance reporting Sept l. A native of Chicago, Ya• JACL invited to 1980 census nagisawa is a graduate of the Univ. of Hawaii, major• bureau advisory committee ing in sociology. He is pres• ently doing graduate work \\8sbingtoo Representative. in Asian AJ11el;can history The Japanese American The committee advises at UCLA. Hewas pre ious• Citizens League was invit• the director of the Census ly employed by the Social ed by the Secretary of Bureau in plaming and im• eCUlity AdJ11inistration, Commerce, Juanita M. proving the 1978 count, from which he resigned Kreps, this past week (Jan recommenclq subject becau e it lacked the chal• 8) to join the 1980 Census count of parti:ular use to lenge offered by the pres• Advisory Canmittee on AsianlPacific populations ent po ition. the Asian and Pacific and expanding use and (Repolt of Tsuneishi's American PoJWations. usefulness of the census re ignation as di tlict go - "The committee has the results. ernor in the Jan. 5-12 PC important task to help im• 'a "premature" and we prove the quality of census The committee is ex• regret any iocon enience OffiCial Photograph: The White House data on the Asian and Pa• pected to meet twice a the announceJ11ent J11ay SOME FAMIUAR FACES-California Congressmen Norman Mineta and Robert cific Americm popula• year. Its 21-nenber panel ha e stirred.-Editor.) Matsui share an informal exchange with President Jimmy Carter aboard Air Force I. tions," SecretaIy Kreps will select a chairperson The two Congressmen will share the spotlight during the 33rd Annual Washington said in a letter to Ron Ike• and chairpe~1ect for a COIIliDUed 011 Pace 5 D.C. Chapter Installation dinner dance on Jan. 27. jiri, JACL Washington one-year tenn II 2-PACIFIC CmzEN I Friday, January 19,1979 ------..------PC Directory: 1979 Memberships Local JACL chapters to screen Membership fee (after name of chapter) reflect the 1979 rate for ingle and Couple. Thousand Club members contribute $SO and up, but their spouse ( ) may enroll at the special rate as shown; otherwise, the Single member rate applies. Student dues (y) do not include PC applicants for nat' I scholarship subscription but such members may subscribe at the JAU rate ( Dues are payable and remitted to the JACL Chapter of the individual's choice. z-RetiTed rcitizens cations must be post• As Jan. 8, 1979 San Francisco open to memrers of JACL, of NOR'lHERN CAlD'ORNIA-WJiSiDtN NEVADA Applicatioos for the 1979 their children,J AY s' mem• marked no later than April PAmlC NORIBWliSr National JAU-scholarship bers, and all IX!rsons of Ja• 1, 1979. Columbia BMiD (S22..SO-4O, yS7 Alameda ($20-3&y$6) .••..••••••. .Nancy Tajima program are now available, panese ancestry. Appli• Applications for junior 70$17.50).. Edward M Yamamoto 1165 Sand Beach Place. Alameda, CA 94501 it was amnmced this cants will te judged on 4502 Fairchild Loop. Moses Lake, Wa 98837 Berkeley (S20-3S.y$6) ...... Terry Yamashita college transfer and grad• Gresham-Troutdale (S?) ...... Hawley 2711 Tulare A~ El Cerrito, Ca 94530 week by Helen Mineta, na• academic aptitude. uate scholarships must be Rt 1 Box 187, Gresham. Or 97030 Contra ~ (sn~ y$6) ...... John Shinagawa tional scholarship chair• Each JACL chapter, or directly Mid-Columbia ($1) ...... Ron Yamashita 3011 Phillips Ct. Ricbmond. Ca 94806 submitted to Na• (517~y$6) man, and JD. Hokoyama, regio~ offire closest to tional Headqwrters. 3790 Mountain View Dr. Hood River. Ore 97031 Cortez ...... RORer Masuda the residence of the appli• Portland ($1) ...... Nobi Azumano 14925 W El Capital. Delhi. Ca 95315 assistant naticna1 director. All applications in the 2802 SE Moreland Lane. Portland, Or 9 202 Diablo VaDey ($3).36.50, dl6.S0) Nancy A. Noma Application forms and bnr cant where there is no three categorie~high Puyallup Valley (S26-3S, y$S, 70$10) .Hana Yoshida 111 Appa)acian Dr. Martinez. Ca 94553 chures have been sent to JACL chapter, will screen 5402 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, Wa 98404 Eden Township ($17-34, y$S) ...... Ichiro Nishida schoo), junior college, and ($22.5040) ...... John Matsumoto 875 Elgin St. San Lorenzo, Ca 94580 all JACL crnpter presi• and submit the applica• graduate level-must be tions of those deemed the clo 316 Maynard Av S. Seattle. Wa 98104 FIorln(S17.5O-3S) ...... Catherine Taketa dents, regional offices, and postmarked no later than Spokane (S?) ...... Marcelline Terao 1324 - 56th St. Sacramento. Ca 95819 Japanese Arrerican Youth top three. The local area May 1, 1979, in order to 3?~ E ?th. Spokane, ':fa 99202 . . FremOIIt ($1) ...... Herb lzuno (JAYs) presickmts. will be responsible for de• qualify for the national White River VaIley (S.) ...... HU'o NakaI 41966 Via San Gabriel. Fremont. Ca 94S38 917 - 40th Ave S. Auburn. Wa 98002 Freocb Cam (SJ8.3S) ...... Hideo Morinaka Scholarshi~ averaging termining financial need. scholarship program. $500 will be awarded to All things being equal, fi• PACIF1C SOUTIlWESf 612 W WoWe Rd, French CamP. Ca 94580 Awards will te announced (~39) nancial need will be con• Arizona ... _...... Masako Takiguchi Gilroy ($20-40) ...... Lawson Sakail graduating high school the latter part of May. For 5702 W Northern Ave, Glendale, Az 85301 PO Box 308. Gilroy, Ca 95020 sidered. seniors as well as one jun• additional information Carson (S17~3S) ...... Nita Baird Livingston-M~ (~) ...... Shennan Kishi ior college transfer, and Students must complete 23207 S Marigold Ave, Torrarice, Ca 90502 12077 W Olive Ave. Livmgston, Ca 95334 contact: l several graduate students. the applicat::ims, submit J .D. Hokoyarrn, Assistant Na• CoacheDa Valley (S16..ID-33). ____ Kaye Musashi Lodi ($20-40) ...... : ...... Henry Oga 43-712 Main St., Indio, Ca 92201 23 N Stockton St, Lodi, Ca 95240 Through the generosity of one letter of recommenda• tional Director. 1765 Sutter St., ~ty tion, and an official trans• San Francisco. CA 94115. Downtown LA. (SZ2-38) Frank H'rata Marin ($22-38, y$S) ...... Sam Shimomunl) many individuals as well clo Cal 1st Bank, 120 S· S~~ .p~~', ·L.A. 900;2 19 Tilden Dr. Novato. Ca 94947 _ as the California First cript. Fall semester grades A-~Ies (...... An) Michl Ob' Marysville (SI8.S).37) ...... Ray Kyonol as well as wOIk in progress East Los• .nut;;o;; -":"'" ...... • ~ 1648 Melanieln, Yuba City. Ca9S991 Bank and the Surnitomo L.A. Dateliners-- 1l1:stAlbansAve,SouthPasacfena,Ca91~3O M t Fe' 1a(S2AAft) P tNakasak An on erey nllRl T"WV. • • • • •• e 0. Bank of California, the pro• for the sp~ semester A topping ceremony for Gardena Valley ($22-wv) ..._ ..... __._Dudley Otake 805 Lily St Mroterey Ca 93940 gram will award in excess must be included on the the S-story Japanese Amer• . POBox 2361, Gardena, CA 90247 . Oakland ($1)' ...... '...... Roy R Endo. of $10,000 to students this transcript. ican Cultural and Com muni• Greater Pasadena Area (S?) ...... Bob UchIda 614 Mandana Blvd, Oakland, Ca 94610 year. With local JACL screen• ty Center under constuction 852 S Los Robles, Pasadena. Ca 91106 . . Placer County ($1) ...... Frank Hironaka in Little Tokyo is scheduled HoUywood ($1) ...... Toshlko Oglta 6227 Rebel Circle Citrus Heights Ca 95610 The national scholarship ing applicatirns for the na• 2017. Ames St, Los Angeles, Ca 90027 . . ReDO ($17.so.34) .. . '...... Mrs Kiks Wada program, now in its 33rd tional competition, it is im• Jan. 23. Imperial Valley (S2O-3S) ...... Shiz Mont" 460 W Riverview Cir Reno Nv 89S09 year, recognizes many out• perative students observe Friends of the Little Tokyo U!·Z~ Box 4i: Westmoreland, Ca. 92281 . . Sacram~to (~-40. ySiS) . . .' ...... Percy Masaki deadline dates in order to Bookmobile presented $1,000 ps (S S» ...... Mae Fisher 2739 Riverside Dr, Sacramento. Ca 95818 standing students of Japa• to the city library to pur• 5954 Lampel.l.a<; Vegas, Nv 89119 Salinas Valley ($?) ...... Henry Kuramoto nese ancestry and reaf• qualify. High school appli• chase more books in the Ja• Metro LA. ($?) ...... Oonna Osugi P.O.Box 1963, Salinas, Ca 93902 firms the value instilled by cants for the national panese language. The book• 340 S Lafayette Park Pl. Los Angeles, Ca 90026 San Benito CountY . ($21.50-43) ....Robert Shinkai pioneers who stressed the scholarship program must mobile stops on Saturdays, ~ew Age ($?) ...... 1050 MadisonSt '19, Watsonville, Ca 95076 San Franc:iscQ (S2D-36) ...... Yo Hironaka importance of education. qualify for the local J ACL 2:30-4:40 p.m.,at the Higashi North San Diego ($?) ...... Hiro Honda 56 Collins St, San Franciso, Ca 94118 1120 Chestnut Ave, Carlsbad, Ca 92008 The scholarships are competition. These appli- Honganji parking lot. San Jose (526-28) ...... sharon Kuwa~ OraDge County ($Z2-40)... BettyOka)

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As of October 30, 1978 TWIN CITIES Father Clement Silver Pins LONGBEAOI Lucille Nakamura Tesh Kuge Koko Sutow Kimi Nakanishi Bill Doi Sumifusa Fujimoto Edna Suzuki Jim Mizote Ben Terashima Elmer Ogawa Chester Fujino Fred Ikeguchi George Yuzawa Dr Mitsuo Nakata Raymond S Uno Ted Sakahara Kimi Ha ra George Iseri Rowe ffiroshi Sumida Isamu Watanukj Roy Y Seko Sam Hara ALAMEDA (1()VIS Ed Shiroma OAKLAND Betty Akagi Fumio Ikeda Dr ltaru Ishida Roy Endo Tomoko '¥ano Dr Terrance Toda teve Twago Hifumi Sunamoto TomizoJoe PUYALLUP VALlEY George Yoshimoto Shigeko Uno Mikio Klrihara Hiromu AkagJ Hifumi Ikeda Tom Tagami Molly Kjtajima Richard Hayashi ' Roland Kadonaf!a Toshi Kawasaki Dr John Kashiwabarn Ted Mayeda SAN BENITO Takako Yoda Warren Kyono Eiko Takemoto Al1an Kobata Joe Kosai Howard Nomura Wakhi OyanagJ Bob Mochizuki Ken Takemoto Shizuo Tanaka George Murakami Kay Kamimoto SELMA Nellie Takeda Yoshi Takahashi Kazuko Matsumoto James Tsurumoto Sarah Sugimoto George Baba Rev Andrew N Otani Frank Watanabe ffiroshi Morita Margaret Utsumi SAN DIEGO May Tanaka Toshiko Takeoka Dr MasaoYamamoID Yoshihiko Tanabe Moto Asakawa Alan Masumoto Ju~ TakeshIta Tokuo Yamamoto DOWNTOWN LA. Arthur Noda Nko Yokomizo George Okazaki Charles Tatsuda George Ushijima Soicbi Fuk~t.l Jim Okita Motomj T Yokomizo REEDLEY George Fujito Sumi Teramoto COLUMBIA BASIN Alfred Hatate Franklin Sugiyama Henry Hosaka Masaaki Hironaka SEQUOIA Paul Tsuchiya Yas Yamashita Robert Schaden OMAHA Paul Hoshi AI Nakai Hajlme Fujimori Edward Matsuda MARYSVILLE George S Ikemiya Yukio Yamaguchi Frank Suzukida Walter J Allen Dr James Ikemlya Dr Tad Imoto Tom Yamane Edward Yoshjkawa CONTRA COSTA Harry Fukwnitsu Yukio Ando BERKELEY Grace Gato Takito Yamaguma Henry Iwanaga Arthur Kaihatsu SNAKE RIVER George Yoshino Tom Ouye Iris Hatanaka Gladys ffirabayashi George Katsuki Mariko Kawase Jerry Irei EAST LOS ANG~ Robert Inouye Edward F Ishii George Hashitani VENICE CULVER Henry Takahashi Tom Kawagucbi lGyoshi Kawamoto George Kodama George Iseri Nobu Uratsu Mattie Furuta Shurei Matsumoto Mitsuo Kawamoto Taro Matsw Kazuo Adachi Sam Kitabayashi Akira Hasegawa George Kiyomoto MUD Iseri Frank Yamasaki George Nakao Ma Misaki Tak Naito George Muto George Isoda James K Kjmoto Ken Kato Dan Nishida NoZIa Okada Tom Iseri Setsu lsoda George Yasukochi S Richard Komatsu Bill Yamada Ben T Nakata Tom Itami Ritsuko Kawakami Frank Okimoto Walter H Obayashi Frances Kitagawa ClDCAGO Meriko Maida Dr Robert Obi lsao Tokunaga ORANGE COUN'IY Edrue Yano lsao Kameshige Dr Richard Saiki Harvey Aki George Nakagawa Ken Hayashi Joe Owashi Joe Komoto Micbi Obi RENO Sam SUgita Mike Hitoshi Shimizu Man Aki F10ra Ninomiya ffiroOmura MJD.COLUMBIA George Kanno Fred Aoyama Clifford Morikawa Fumi Utsuki Masaru Funaj Joe Oishi Harry Matsukane Hedi Takeshita AJjce Nishitani Junko Tanikawa Masami Asai Joyce Chikami Bert Tanaka Mary Waka matsu Esther Hagiwara Nellie Sakai Walter TatsUDo Taro Asai Frank Nagamatsu TomOki Tom Nishitanl Jane Yamashita Ross Harano Sam Sakai ffiroshi Nitta Eddie Urata Frank Ogami Dr George Wada Sho Endow, Jr Eunice Osluma 'Robert M Yamauchi Betty Yumori '" illiam Hiura Joe Sugawara George NaKalTIura Shosuke Nitta Oscar Fujii JackOgami Masako Inouye Eiko Sulrihara EDEN TOWNSHIP Minoru Nitta SAN FERNANDO Toshiko Oguro WASHINGTON, DC. Akira Hasegawa Koe Nislumoto REXBURG Alice Endo Dr Gladys Ishida George Swtihara MamoruNoji Ken Uyesugi Tom Endow Abe Sajto Roy Iwata Ben TakesJiita Masako Mi.nanti Fuji ffikida John Kaneko Joe Sajto George Furukawa Tetsuma Sakai Ray Sato PARLIER Kazuo Hikida Sally Furukawa Fumi Iwatsuki Dr Yashiye Togasaki Mits Takasumi Ralph Kimoto Eugene Kono Nellie Sajto John Kitazaki Willia.m Waki Ichiro Nishida Miye Hikida Robert Moriguchi Paul Saito Shigeki Hiratsuka Ray TYasw James Kozuki Yutako Hikida Toro Hirose Sumi Kobayashi Howard YamamolD FOWLER Byrd Kumataka Fred Muto Yosh Sakahara Theodore Kometanl Hannah Yasuda Ken ffirose MJLE.m Jane Ikeda Harry Otsuki Barton Sasaki Harold Horiuchi Bill Kuroki Sue Miyakawa Jessie Miyasaki Joseph Ichiuji Ruth Kumata CORTEZ Kazuo ffiyama KengoOsumi SAN FRANCISCO George Sugai HiroMayeda Yoshio Honda Tom T Milsamori Kazuo Sakota Masako Sugai Susie Ichiuji Sam Kuwahara RosaOdow PASADENA Mabel Sakota Yo Hironaka Dr Norman Ikari Sumi Miyaki Helen Yuge Roy Kato Lol1ise Koike Bobbie Watanabe Alma Mizuno Harley Nakamura Jean Sato Tom T Ito Marie Sakota James Watanabe Kyoko Ikari DAYTON Betty Suzqki Harris Ozawa Marie Kurihara Fumi Iki Shig Murao Frank Sakahira SACRAMENTO Ichiro Sugiyama Mamaro Wakasugi Maume Nakada Ryoko Green Tom Shirakawa Henry Suzuki Henry Watanabe TokoFujii Mary Wakasugi Paul Ishimoto Jack Nakagawa Pete ffironaka George Teraoka Gladys Taniwaki PHlLADEU'HIA Tom Y Fujimoto SANGER Dr Kenji Yaguchi Aki Iwata Mas Nakagawa Ray Jenkins Tom Toyama True Yasui Sim Endo Yasusbi Ito Larry Hikjji Mas Yano Emi Kamachi Dr Mark Nakauchi Robert Kanagawa Key Kobayashi Ruby Nakagawa FREMONT Hatsumi Harada Gladys Masaki SONOMA COUNTY Ruth Nakaya ffideoOkubo MILWAUKEE Percy Masaki Kelly Ishjmoto Rose Kuwabara Henry Kato Henry Date Richard Horikawa George Hamamoto Mike M Masaoka George Nishimoto Paula Okubo x.. Albert B Ikeda Joe Matsunami George Nishimura Yaeko Sato KazShOOmo Julius Fujihira Tak Kameoka Katherine Matsukj AriyeOda Sumi Kobayashi Tom Sato SAN JOSE James Murakami Thomas Okabe YoSato ntENCHCAMP Helen lnai Dubby W Tsugawa Claire Minami Ed Jonokuchi Allen Okamoto Mrs T Ajari EdwinOhki Don Komai Sue Omori Ken Sugawara John Fujiki ffiroshi Uyehara Takashi Tsujita Dr Tokjo Ishikawa Dr James Taguchi Helen Jonokucbi Ann Ohki Ruth Kuroishi Jean Sakamoto ntESNO Lily Kataoka PlACER COUN'IY SAlNTLOUlS Sue Matsumura Dr Roy Okamoto Edwin Mitoma Joe s8gaini Matilde Taguchi Lois Toyama Jack Harada Takio Kataoka George Hirakawa George K Hasegawa Dr Robert Okamoto Martin Shimizu Chisato Ohara Dr Frank Sakamoto Mike Iwatsubo Yutaka Kuge Frank ffironaka Harry Hayashj Henry H Uyeda Pat Shjmizu Hisako Sakata Hirao S Sakurada Masaru Yamasaki Dr Henry Kazato Lily YamasaIc:i Charles Matsumotn Harry Kawahata Richard Henmi SANLUlSV~ George Yokoyama Ira Shimasakj Uncoln Shintidzu John Kubota Jim J Mi azak:i Ellen Kubo Lois Miyasaka Sojiro Yoritomo James Yokoyama Tsugi Shiroishi Lolrise A Suski DELANO Ben Nakamura ~yazak:i Lucille James Makimoto Mary Maruyama SPOKANE Harry I Takagi Henry S Tanabe Jeff Ft.kawa , Sally Slocum Miyoko Mukaj Howard Nakae Paul Maruyama SAN MATEO Henry Wakabayashi Henry Terada Hiroshi Ito Edw M Tsutakawa JuneFukawa Tony Takikawa Roy Mukaj Bunny Nakagawa Rose Ogino Frank M Hisayasu ChiyeTomihiro Joe Katana Yo Takikawa Satoshi Nakahira. Don Sakahara Yosh Kojimoto WEST LA. Tak Tomiyama Hugo Nishimoto Sakae Yamagucbi Dave Akashi Toshi Katana Robert Tsubota Shiro Shiraga Richard Nislumura Pauline Sakahara SOUTHWEST LA. Kay Yamashita Paul Kawasaki Barbara Taniguchi Dan Sakahara George Fujita Mary Deguchj Nami Shio KunioOkusu SANTA BARBARA Dr Milton Inouye KenYoshihara Bill Nakagama Kengo Teramura Hiroshi Takemoto George Shingu Ikey Kakimoto Hiroko Kawanami SamZaiman GARDENA VAllEY Matsunosuke Oi George Y Kanegai Margie Nakagama Tashiro HinUde Masayuki H Yego Arlene Sueoka Jane Uyesaka Karen Yamasaki MONTERt'r Joe Tanaka Toy Kanegai Betty Nagatani Paul Ichiuji Roy 1 Yoshida SEABROOK STOCKTON Frank Kishi MavNaIamo Edward Nagatani GRESB'M·'J1('DAIE Yukinobu Yamamoto George Baba Lillfan Kimura Kaz Kinoshita Pet Haruo Nakasako POCATELLO Peggy M Fukawa Ruth T Miyada Mits Nagatani Mike Sanda Mike Abe SALlNASV~ Dick Kunishi.r:-'a Mits uye Baba George Nakao Mrs Mits Nagatani Jack Ouchida Fred Dobana 0NaNNA11 Shio Uyetake James Tabata Marianne Endo James Abe Mike Minato Amy Nakashima Ben Okura Saburo Okino JennenTada KazEndow Kjyosbi Hirano Mary Nagao Ruby Dobana Haru Nakata Hisashi Supwara MasTakald IDAHO FALLS Frank Tanaka Novo Kato Ted Ikemoto Ellen Nakamura Harry Hayashino Mirs Nakazawa JoeSupwara DetoHarada George Uyeda Tom Lefty Mjyanaga George Noda Mary Kusama Kiyo Nomura DEi'ROJT Yuki Harada Ike Kawamura James'l'akeuchi Elaine AkaRi Mas Yokogawa Shin Kawamura Harry Sa.kasegawa Kiyomi Nakamura George Matsumoto Akira Ohno Tadao Toltimoto Doris !:Ujioh Charlie ffirai TakYokota Alice Konishi Harry M Sbirachi Jack M Nakayama TULARE COUN'IY Mas Oshinomi Kaye Watanabe SacbMibmi Barton Yoshida Henry Tanda SunkieOye George Sakamoto Setsu FUiiob Shoji Nukaya Tom Morimoto KayHada MameIIe Watanabe Tom HaShimoto Paul Okamura James H Tanda Fujio Sasaki June Hatakeda Tanny Sakaniwa ~ RoyHigo FredOchi MTOLYMPUS GeorgeSato George Tanimura F10rence Sakata Ben Hayakawa Yuki Sato Mike S Asuawa Yosbiko Inouye Yoshiko Ochi Minoru Matsumori 1Gn Sato John Teragawa Fusaye Kazaoka Mike Imoto Roy Takeda Taro Habua Bud Sakaguchi Tom Matsumori May Shiozawa George Higashi Kayko Ichinaga Robert Ishida Aiko Takeshita MinolIlwasaIti ~~ Martha S8kaguchi Lou T Nakagawa KaeSumida Shi g Takeshita FumiTanaka SALT LAKE SEAT'I'LE Takashi Ishizue Mrs Tosbi Kado1ll1llti YukiNamba Be~ Tominaga Rae Fujimoto Helen Akita Frank Kubota Eileen Uchida ~ Margaret Yamasaki Helen Oniki Mikie Morimoto Steve K Vagi ~Ono Sam Yamasaki Josie Hachiya JiroAoki Ed Nagata tr.:KimoIo Toru Shimizu Mas Tsukamoto Grace Kasai Frank Hattori Stanley Nagata Mary Ishizuka William. Sadatalti George Otsujj UV-MI!RCI!:D Sadie Yoshimura Kunia Yamada AI Kubota Phil Hayasaka Harry Nii Sho Shimotsu Geae TabhMhj June~ Hirosbi Hamagucbi NEWYORJ( Ronald Yokota Doris Matsuura Thomas T lmori Non Ogara Virginia Tominaga Kazuo~ Vi 'J'Mahashi Walter Miyao Tomio EoodIty JIOR1'IAND TatsMisaka Tom Iwata Dou2las Yamada WIII'I'E RIVER KayMiJaya FrankSho·' Bill ~ebisu Frank~ Marion Glaeser Jolm Hada Jimi Mitsunaga DonDKazama George Kawasaki # =',=:: Tosbi Sbimoura Moooray Kojima. Shigeru Hongo Aiko Morishita Eira Na~aoka Shig Kjtauchi Frank Natsubara 4- Friday, January 19, 1979 I.SSN: 0030-8579 PACIFIC CITIZEN Comment, letters, features Published weekly except the first and last weeks of the year at 355 E. FtrSt St, Ffll. 'JJ7, Los ArgeIes, Cali. 90012. (213) 626-m36 ~Redress-Pro and Con after the whlteAmerican will persevering. But our rights DR. Cl.JHuRD UYEDA, NATIONAL JAa.. PRESIDENT Editor: pective and arrive at some not work for us. It has been have been trampled on and ElLEN ENro, PACIFlC CITIzEN BoARD CIiAIRPERsoN I would like to address my• kind of understanding that proven it will not. Holding vitiated. Our resources as HARRy K HONDA, EDITOR self to an issue that goes to would make sense out of the forever to the status of the human beings ha e been wasted by prejudice. \\e Second Oass postage paid at Los Angeles, Cafrf. the roots of many problems whole sordid episode. \\-e minority will prevent us SUBSCRIPTION RATES in our society today. It is es• need a touchstone to test our growing psychically and psy• were psychologically emas• JACl Membefs-$7 d National Dues pr:Mdes one yea- on a one-per. pecially pertinent to the re• interpretation of our unique chologically as individuals. culated. Because of our pati• household basis. Noofflermers payable In advanc&-U.S. $10 a yea-. dress movement. experience in ~is society. So And growing to be individu• ence and wisdotn, we have Foreign USS14.50 a}'9lr. For rm class/Umai - ~re abou1 our ra1es. There may be many pros far. we have none. als, entities who are unique important things to contri~ N_a and opInions .xpr.... d by columnlats, .xeep1 JACL and cons regarding the re• As a novelist. I am vitally because of their unique ex• ute to this society to make staff _ w.r~.ra !. do not nee.a.. rlly reflect JACL polley. dress movement. which I interested in the problem of a periences. is precisely the this country-our home-a want to see succeed. but the touchstone of reality. I be• question. The time to be indi• better place for e eryone to crux of the matter deals with lieve we have been looking at viduals. proud and unafraid. live in. We must extrapolate PRESIDENT'S CORNER: Clifford Uyeda the question of what reany the problem of racial preju• is now. Unless we aUow our• from our experiences. Such happened tousasa group and dice and oppression from the selves the liberty to explore an extrapolatioo has led me as individuals. I was incar• shopworn perspectives of our own potential as individ• to the concept and belief in cerated in the camps as a boy the majority and minority at• uals, we cannot say we are enlightened individual isIT'. of nine, and the debilitating titudes regarding the rela• free. and we would be of little and this is an area that needs Whales effects of the camps lasted tive nature of power. We tend value either toourselvesor to redefinition today. It goes to long after the war was over to view our experiences eith• others. Exploring our own the heart of today's prob• Dr. Paul Spong, the world's fore• and the ~mps were closed. er from the point of view of potential. facing our hang• lems. most authority on Orca ("killer There is no need to go into de• the white middle-class ups, and even questioning I hope the redress move• whale"), stopped by the other eve• tails. All of us who went to the American or the "underdog" the sacrosanct premises of ment succeeds and someone ning. He wil1 be in Hawctii shortly. camps experienced in vary• Japanese American. I put the this society does not imply has the courage to sponsor ing degrees the spiritual the bill. I. for one, refuse to be "The humpbacks are returning there for the winter," he word in quotes, because we anarchy. it simply means we numbness that overtook us are not underdogs; we would would be exercising our spoonfed tidbits of legisla• said. and to which we reacted in be misleading ourselves if rights as individuals in what tion aimed primarily at su~ ­ These are the intelligent acoustic creatures that orc.r different ways. Suffice it to we thought so. But neither will hopefully bean enduring arcoating the bitter pill of our duce underwater "songs"-complex sequences of re• say that we need to look at the point of view is viable or will democracy. experience. Good luck J ACL! peated phrases with which they communicate over miles• experience of the camps answer our needs. our true As . ROBmT H. KaNa of ocean. from our own unique pers- needs. Modelling ourselves we are proud. cheerful and Eugene, Ore. In nearly a decade of involvement in whale conserva• tion, four years of it as chairman of the JACL National ~Use of 'Jpn' important step to expurgate It is understood that Japan people who have some very Whale Issue Committee, one of the most rewarding as• the epithet "Jap" completely has political and econoIT'ic bad recollections of being pects has been in the contacts one makes. Conservation• Editor: from the world of language. Regarding the press con• probleIT's to solve hefore of· prejudiced against. a lot of ists, environmentalists, musicians, scientists, politicians G.N.ASAWA fering free trade. There are Japanese Americans don't - the goal is to prevent the wanton destruction of our troversy in England concern• Anaheim. Calif. ing the world 'Jap" (PC, Nov. no quick answers. Like our like this kind of "contamina• environment for short tenn comfort and profits. Dimin• inflation probleIT's. the trade tion". I feel a lot of prejudice 3), the word "JPN" has been Editor: from Japanese Atnericans ishing whales are a symbol of this ruthless destructive adopted as the official abbre• Re your 11/3178 editorial problems IT'ust be recog• because I married a non.Ja• force at work Man is capable of destroying all living viation for Japan and Japa• "Why Not Nikkei", no mat• nized and then treated. There panese. Sometimes I think beings, including himself. nese. ter how you slice it, we'll still is no publically recognized they dislike interracial mar• We opposed boycott as a tactic to save the whales To the best of my knowl• get the short end of the stick activity. riages more than any other because aside from being an ineffective tool. it unleashed edge this abbreviation is to as Niks or Nik Americans. HARVEY EVERETT Washington D.C. JACLer group of people. a vicious racism not only against Japanese people but be used throughout the U.S. We have two too many "icks", Mick and Spic. in the Japanese Americans also became targets. Predictably government service. ~Intermarriage issue Anyway, the point is, In U.S. Army Japan we use language already, so let's many of us are marrying hostile respooses were generated amongst the very pe0- keep it Japanese as it has Editor: ple whose cooperation is vital to saving the whales. this abbreviation whenever To me, one of the most im• non-Japanese so I think the approprite with great suc• more daikon to it. PC should give more impor• The latter half of 1977 saw most major American con• ROY IWAKI portanl thlngs Dr. Nakashi• cess. The suggestor of thls ma's letter (pc, Nov. 24) tance to this topic. Maybe servation organizations withdrawing their support of the word was awarded $50 for his New York one of your reporters could boycott. This paved a way for American and Japanese pointed out was that many idea. He works for the U.S. ~Yen look into why interracial conservationists to cooperate and work together to save or Trade Japanese Americans have Army in Japan. married and are marrying marriages among us is so the environment and the whales. Perhaps this note can be of Editor: popular. Is it because we feel Strong Yen or Restricted Caucasians and other people The Committee attempted to keep Japanese Ameri• assistance in putting an end of non-Japanese ancestry. I inferior because we are Ja• cans infonned about whales and whale issues because to this word which strikes Trade? panese, and so want to "fit It is difficult to restrain think it would be very bene• awareness is the key to all human activities. Without most J apaneseas derogatory ficial to all Japanese Amer• in" by marrying a non-Japa• and degrading. comments when coluIT'njsts nese? Do we find each other awareness there is no learning, no growth and no action. on the subject of yen versus icans if the Pacific Citizen * • • . KIYOSHI TAKANO wrote about this "phenome• unattractive? What is caus• D r .. Harry Hatasaka of Palo Alto has taken over as Tokyo the dollar, as for example ing this phenomenon to ha~ Frank Fukazawa, disregard non" overtaking our young chairman of the JACL Whale Issue Committee. It is one Editor: -and our not so young. I've pen? Are there reasons be• the fundamentals of foreign hind it that smuld be in• of the most rewarding committee chairs. # The adoption of either Jpn. trade economics. Japan finds read that in a few more gen• or J pse. or both, or possibly erations there may be no vestigated and talked about? itself with excess U.S. dollars I hope you realize that such a even Jpnse. as an official a~ which cannot be traded with more "pure" Japanese in the YE EDITOR'S DESK: Harry K. Honda breviaion for Japanese and (except the discussion could be very Canada. Ge nJ1.any , or even beneficial to all of us. actually using it, is an impor• OPEC countries, but only ones who've recently moved tant aspect of the welfare of with the U.S. The other coun• here, of course). CHERYL WATAMURA Bumper Stickers Japanese community. tries have U.S. dollars which I am married to a non.Ja• MARTINEZ The world's news media they prefer to trade with the panese man. I must say, for a EI Cerrito, Ca It's really an old story but a good one never dies ... at least insist on the use of the epi• United States in order to pro• in the PC. 'This comes from the Chicago JACL newsletter thet "Jap" and naively insist tect their own IT'arkets. 35 YEARS AGO .. TIE IW:fIC CII1Z8II (Nov. 1978), revealing the good works of Dr. Frank Sakamoto that it is the only and proper abbreviation for Japanese. The inflation of the donal' JIULB,1944 Jim Nagata stars in 19-14 victory and Joe Sagami- seeing that 100,000 offensive bumper stick• with respect to the yen. is over TCU at Orqe Bowl game. ers to be distnbuted by a communications workers union This is usually followed with Dec. 17-Minreapolis Nisei vigorous protests and emo• similar to inflation of the dol• (Thomas Sasaki, 17) gets a job as .laD. 2-Eight evacuees teach• were quietly stashed away and stay unused. street-car conducbr (probably a ing Army cadets Japanese lan• tionalisms from Japanese lar in the U.S. with respect to guage at Univ. of Chicago. Action begins. when a patient tells Frank (an optometrist by goods-too many dollars in Mainland first). groups, such as JACL and Dec. ~ Time Magazine de• J_ 3-War ~t. executives profession) his union plans to issue bumper stickers reading: others. exchange for yen. and in the proud of Nisei war record; Drew "Don't buy Jap goods." Alarmed, the patient wanted to alert scribes anti-Japanese agitation The significant point is U.S., too IT'any dollars for in California as "most violent" Pearson column quotes Under• JACL. Frank asked if he could attend the next union meeting that protesting groups have available U.S. goods and since Yellow Peril pioneer davs. secretary Pattermn and Asst. to explain. The patient agreed to arrange this. It was February services. Sec. McCloy. never pointed out the cor• Dec.~War DePt. executives 1978 when Frank and his sidekick Joe Sagami got to the local. rect abbreviation, as inter• J_15,1,.. Frank suggested a positive message for the sticker, "Buy \\ ashington does not have proud of Nisei war record; Drew JaD. 3-U.S. Sen. Happy preted by the Japanese, to any magic wand to Pearson column quotes Under· Chandler (D-Ky,) critidzea American" and noted the offensive sticker was an injustice to the media. secretary Patterson and Asst. many Japanese Americans who were also union members. "strengthen the dollar". The WRA relocaticrl program in People say what they rea d priIT'ary issue isthe trade im• Sec. McCloy. speech at Long Balch, Calif. While nothing was settled at the meeting, Joe and Frank in• Dec. ~ix barracks used as J-. 9-State d Washington in the news. When this oc• balance which is not solvable warehouses in Poston destroyed vited them to talk further after the meeting at the bar. They curs, the usage of Jap is by money manipulation or AFL building trw:les oppote re• in fire. turn of evac:ueea. came "and that was when I was able to get them to hold off is• again protested with no ap• other gilT'micks. A balance of suing the offensive stickers," Frank beamed. Besides that, Dec. 27-U.S. war correspond• J-.l1-WRAdeniaevacuea parent attempt by the pro• trade or at last an equivalent buying choice in west· Sakamoto and Sagami agreed to replace the expended funds for ent (AP's Don Whitehead) says farm land testing group to correct the confidence is required. Ja• all·Nisei tOOth Inmntry fighting em (Adama and Mea Counties) the stickers ... and with that, all parties shook hands. The abbreviation. So, the vicious pan must reduce trade bar• some of hardest battles in Italy; Colorado; Gnnd Junction JACLers were confident the offensi e stickers would not be cycle goes on and on, year riers. and Japanese import• Maj. JohnJohnaonofJ

• Fremont • St. Louis NAKAYAMA 11IE BANKER AT HD.At REGIONAL DIRFrI'OR mmJt- • Berkeley TO BE KEYMYrER Fremont JAO.. held its installation rt frorr various non-Nikkei people was • Seattle Dance. Master of Cere• was anllOUfla.'rl by Paul Ta• encouraging. monies for the e ent to be kata. outging president. Out-going president Dr. Walter Hashimoto gave spe• EX-STATE EXECUTIVE held at the Steraton P0- Debbie Nakatomi. re• cial recognitia1 awards to: TO HEAD CHAPTER tomac Inn, Rockville, Md., cently appointed assistant Ron Nakayama (Sisler city): Joyce Tahira and Carole Yamaguchi Mitch Matsudaira, pres• on Jan. 27 will be three• CSpearheadlO~ sdlolarshlp awards charge petition); Dr. Jim Yama• to the Natioml JACL Exe• guchi (Fireworkssale); Ted Satoand Harry Tanouye CHub Mall Food ident of Mich's Men Shop, times elected Congress• cutive Directoc. will swear Sale yearly coonmators); Yoko Young (cultural ambassador to schools). a Seattle Clothing store. man from California, Nor• in Gordy Rom and Mary Chapter president Nakayama (in• will be sworn in as Seattle man Mineta. A 6:30 cham• FUkayarra. newly-elected set) is a vice-president and general JACL president during the pagne receptim precedes presidents of the Berkeley rranager of Sumitomo Bank of Cali• inaugural dinrer Jan. 20 at the dinner. JACL and Berlceley JAYS. fornia's Fremont Office. He has Bush Garden. He was the Honorary Committee for respectively. their officers served as chapter publicity/p.r. first executi~

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Atlantic Blvd . 266-3011 • IRVINE: 5392 Walnut Ave. (714) 552·4751 , ---- MEMBER FSlIC 8-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, January 19,1979 Midwest District Council Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Detroit, Hoosier, Milwaukee, St. louis, Twin Cities Redress: Might rekindle Nikkei backlash It i IT'y opmim (and that is aliI can offer) that uch financial The parPphlet. the Japanese American Incarceration: A Case ByJOHNTANI (Chicago JACL) arrangeIT'ents CI1d the accoIT'panying publicity will OT cau• For Redress, states that the JACL's objectives of the Redress tion the ~erican public again t racial prejudice. And more PrograIT' is "to acknowledge the mistake by providing proper SPEAKING OUT ilT'portant. it ",oold NOT temper a goyernment to re pond to redress for the victims of the injustice, and thereby make such public sentirrent:s in a similar ituation in the future. Rather. injustice less likely to recur." John Tani is a member of the Chicago JACL Board This other forces have come into play which serve as a much IT'ore I am not against redress, 1 am against the JACL's Redress article deals with his opposition to the form of Redress being effecti e precaJtion against rna racial incarceration. Program. undertaken by JACL. The Japanese ~ericans have come a long way since \\orld First. I do not feel that the pmposed program will pro ide \\ar n. but so mve all the American people. The theme of the "proper redress". Secondly, it is my belief that any Redress AIT'erican sociaIJpolitical hi tory of the past three decades h legislation which results froIT' the program will not make "such property loss. But, perhaps more important. there was the loss been "equal lights". The government cannot legislate against injustices less likely to recur" . Finally. I question the manner in of economic OIJlX)rtunity. This loss represents the income lost prejudice. but it has made an effort to combat discrimination. It which the JACL would like the "mistake acknowledged". while being in the camps as well as the costs invo) ed in re-• seems evident that the anti-discrimination IT'ovement is merel ' The grounds for redress seem to be legitimate. The Federal establishing businesses and professions-often in hostile or un• reflecting the dlanging attitudes and prejudice of the public. Government did take specific actions (the Evacuation) which familiar enviromnents. and not vice-versa. denied Constitutional rights to a group of people identified sole-• What is "pro~r redress" for these economic losses? Taking Iy by race. Ths action resulted in economic loss and personal inflation and ~t efforts of reparation into account, $25,000 is It is this current mood of "human rights" which will pre\ nt suffering. only a fraction of the loss suffered by most (or all) of the any recurrence of another Evacuation. Again. fmm the Japa• \\Ihat exactly is to be redressed? Money can compensate for - evacuees. nese Americcmlncarceration: A Case For Redre ." uch a economic loss; but how can anyone assign a monetary value to Of course it is not possible to detennine what the actual eccr IT'assive injustice could not have occurred without the prior redress the personal suffering? nomic losses were on either an individual basis or en masse. history of prejudke and legal discrimination." The economic loss is twofold. First. there was the immense But. as long as the JACL is picking an arbitrary number, why Any form of financial redress will do nothing to prevent fu• not pick one which more accurately reflects a just reparation? I ture injustices. It is the absence of intense prejudice and Ie think $100,000 represents a far more equitable sum. How IT'uch gal discrimination against the Japanese which is our insur• SOUTHEAST ASIANS: money do you feel would compensate for your own losse~ ance. And it is for this that we will forever be in debt to the ef• The personal suffering included loss of freedom, physical forts of the JACL and the Nisei generation. hardships, extreme mental and emotional stress. and personal What does the JACL mean by "acknowledging the mis• How the Midwest looks humiliation. TIEse are merely words. The actual torment is take"? And. again. by whom? locked in each evacuee's own story. The JACL does claim that "the issue is not to recover what 1 cannot add 10 George Kodama's sentiments when he asks. cannot be recovered". The aiIT' of the redress program is to will it "erase the humiliation ?" Indochi• Indochinese refugees in Chicago? topic ofdiscussion was reloca• for the reparations cam• about doing this kind of topic Manzanar riot and repara• nese refugees are located tion. This article contains his paign. with her hairdresser, Fifi tions. The riot was too com• According to Virginia throughout illinois with impression of the interview. I was struck with the in• Nakamura. I talked about plIcated so it was repara• more than 4,000 of them Koch, job crunselor at formality of a TV produc• my father'S arrest on the tions. found in the metropolitan T NISL, an obvious prob• By WILLIAM HOURI tion. I practically walked in evening of December 7. She Chicago area. lem is the weather. Chicago from the street, waiting only asked when I first saw the "Most of our Indochinese at the reception desk, direct• The Governor's Infor• "The Japanese have posted notices of the exclu• refugees have never ex• attacked Pearl Harbor! "be• ly into the studio where I was sion order. I explained that I CHICAGO JACl mation Center for Asian perienced harsh winter gan the Noonbreak show in greeted by Lee Phillip with a did not see them, probably Assistance in Chicago esti• Federal Credit Union weather," she said. "It's dif• Chicago. As the words cheery, "Hi, Mr. Hohri! because there were so few mates the city's Indochi• 5415 Notth Clarlc Street ficult to make them under• boomed forth, Lee Phillip Come over here," as though Japanese families in our Chicago, lIIinot. 60640 nese refugee population we were old ftiends. No (312) 128-7171 stand that they must save a was seen interviewing Willi• cOlT'munity of North Holly• breakdown ac; approxi• am Hohri, announced as "a IT'akeup. No intermediaries. wood. The story line had to Weftdoy Ibn 1 10 Slim portion of their funds to mately 200 Cambodians, 50 board member of the Japa• I signed a release and buy winter coats, etc. when Laos, 300-400 Hrnong, and nese American Citizens walked over to the area they don't understand • Illinois 3,350 Vietnamese. League." Thus began an ad• where Lee was rehearsing why." venturesome, surprising. her introduction to the inter• Church and non-sectari• Whatever your reason. be &u re to see us Another difficulty in Chi• view egment. lAe intrcr ~ an agencies alike are heav• even gutsy commemoration I for all your real eslale needs cago is the relatively high of Pearl Harbor Day on the duced ourselves and then ily in olved in the re ettle• I + . . Realty Wortd-Northcenler, INC. cost and limited availabili• CBS affiliate inChicago. The spent a good :xllT'inutes dis• Q~ • ,. f • ment fforts. Catholic thnlst of the interview. fol• cus ing IT'y experiences and • f-~D Tek Oehlal, P,..ldent ty of decent hrusing. Koch Charitie ,Lutheran Family indicates that a two-bed• lowing a ten-minute new - the" tory line" of the inter• REAllY WORlD "4141 N LIncoln Ave . ChiCagO, III 60618 en1ices, Travelers AidJ view. The producer would • (312) 549-1404 room apartment on the weather report, were the ex• Immigrant Service League perience of Japanese interrupt a fav time . Bob (TNI L), and Jewi h Em• Neat North Side can rent ploym nt Vocational Serv• for as much as $300 per Yam!~!..r!:~!!.~IC8 month. • Indiana • 'Ohio ,. ice form a re ettlement "The resettlement agen• con ortium for funding DOMESTIC & FOREIGN. COMPLETE TRAVR SERVICE cy recei es $250 per head and informational pur• 812 N, Clark St, Chicago, III. 60610 • (312) 144-2730 po . in federal fwrls to resettle ill Oriental Gruc:ery Airline r;!mer for Dayton Funding of resettlement the refugees," said Koch. CD and Gift Store ~ ~~Al~9 ~ San Juan DIU ,Inc. effort ha cane from e\• "For a family of four, $1,000 Ask us tor special oldefs wholesale ~WATCH CLINIC doesn't stretch very far ~ I~ foods trom Ihe Ooeft, 918 w. Bafmont eral urce . HEV. ha giv• giTIs Japanese ~ I!esh woe• 17 N. WABASH AVE .. LOBBY when paying first month's ~ . talco, tenyaki .. ~ n FLIGHT ChIcago, •. 80857 en monie to the Chicago CHICAGO, ILL. 60602 " 372-7863 rent. a secwity deposit, oilier fish a'llllable cIaItt. lulv 7 - 28. 1979 (312) 248-2432 consortium for the past 37111 ...... __ (J17) MWaI JAPAN AIR LINES J P OdIe. Oist. ... GeoraIIcIIIIL RJIIIt. se\ era! yeal to provide CoatiDued on &.ell Pace '."'."J.'II,~ (513) 241-2320 HIraIfij NIIIIwIO, RJIIIt. 1:31-5 ...... '.:Jt.7 .. , ~ "------F~.~1~19N I PACIACaT~E~ I ROSCURO: remember many meetings the beginning of the new in the old Japanese HaU on ball building fund with the HOHRI A Pocatello Perspective orth Fourth ... then the sugar beet field project hcm ra n the n 01- tor ( lack and white. n t l• government closed the and the c.an.m cd. Locally I I wa t ld that part of a ~ or) arti ulating all the Id fa• "CI1IIn...... is ''''M .. .MCL "...... Hall and we began meeting installing recall a furnace \\ RA film wouki be hown. oonalizati n and innu MASA TSVKAMaro foreign entity with a fancy in the County Court House. in the old Hall was a major includmg a tatewent of the The rebuttal poored into rn . (ftw 2 • ....aI&dlfoot JA(1) name. There was lost of Also. there were many issue, also very cootro,'er• go\,ernment' po ltion b y mind. I pi ked three. The Ja• Milton Ei nh<1.,-el'. and that When Kae asked for my mnb'Oversy about it trips to Natimal Meetings sial was the location of the pan \\ ere the! fore the among the Issei. in Salt Lake. Financing the proposed new Hall. In 1962 I would have about 20 sec• mili tar), instal.Iatio ; i t ~ message in thenewsleter. I ond for rebuttal. In wy began reminiscing over In Novemberof 1941 the NationW Head~ers we built our Hall and went ridiculous to say w w W U first IOC District Conven• was a major problem, so deeply in debt There were wemory. the e pre-show di - cared for, and I noticed he the years of involvement cussions and the actual said nothing ahoot the United in the Pocatello Nisei tion was held at the Stu• we spent many days and ties when the burden be• show. which wac; Ii e. roerge. dent Union Building of nights collecting dona• came overwhelming but Stat Con titution. And then League and the JAa.. Sur• except for the rebuttal and roy mind went blank. Num University of IdaOO South• tions. after 16 years I feel we ~estions. prisingly it goes back near• some surprise three. Finall . trere wa not a ly forty YeBB. How time ern Branch in Pocatello. In reminiscing, it's sur• have something to be very There was ahoot 10 minutes ingle in tance of sabotage Sure was a lot d strangers prising how vividly one proud of. before the how in which to committed by Japanese flies. ~me In the late thirties it was from Utah and clear from can recall events and pe06 " our schools' curriculums, (7) Promoti~n of cuI~ fai.rs ~ ~xhibits: lIIndllOII 11:311 - 2:00 944·S4u. ~~ Sun 7~ S I7 Indicate size & quantity desired ______Dinner 5:80 - 11;00 I am proud t) be an American of Japanese descent I am Name ______Slltllay 12:. - 11:00 • Washington, D.C. proud of my 1Sgei grandparents who endured the hardships of Adm~ ______immigration. And I am proud of my parents who did not sue• 226 South Harbor Blvd. Masaoko-Ishikawa cwnb to bitterness and hatred-but rather lived lives of dignity. City, State. ZIP ______and Associates. Inc. and above all else, Jove. Santa Ana, Calif. 92704 Consultants - Washington MaHers (714) 531-1232 _900-17dtStNW. #520 / ~ Let us honor them - not mmpensate them. # 10-PACIFIC CmZEN I Friday, January 19,1979 ------FROM THE DUST PAN: Tomi, the Gomi who are led by Jimmu Japanese TV show Tenno. For Twins Only in L.A. changes Book, stage & film He wonders hy the Ja• Los Angeles .. panese language i unlike Dear Editor: see if they wruld write in . United Television Broad• any other. why some pe0- Since writing my col• to you and express their casting, producers of the ple climbing Ml Fuji dis• umn (Nov. 17) on twins views on twinhood. their first Japanese language pro• An ever-inquIsitive author - appear. is there a link be-• (Tama the Janna and Tomi age, sex, and whether they gram to be aired in the Los tween ancients of Japan the Comi), I OOcarne cur• are identical or not. Angeles area, ended its sev• stirs fact and fancy to entertain and the ancients of Ameri• en-year association with ca (Incas. Amcs.etc.). hy ious as to how many other In the twenties when my twins there are who are KWHY -TV and moved to The name of Vaughn M. focus on thingsJapanese in did the Egyptians. Inca • sister and I were born. the KSCI (18) effective Jan. 15. readers of the PC. Greene's lxdc, ASTRO• a heady intnxluction He Japanese and ocher sun• Japanese frowned on mul• Their programs air Sun• NAUTS OF ANCIENT JA• wonders why the Ainu It would be interesting to days 6:30-8 p.rn.; Monday disc worshippers all prac-• tiple births since they PAN (Merlin Engine were original inhabitants tice intermarriage of the thought only animals had 9:30-11:30 p.m. aJld Fridays 9:30-12 p.m. Works, Box 1(9, Millbrae, and where they came from royal family (to protect the more tl1an one baby at Ca. 94030-prre unlisted), If Japan is a Ia1d of moun• sky-god blood?) .... and IS MORI a time. We were told that should be a tip-off to what tains jutting out of the sea, chapters followwithspecu• my poor mom cried when Bookshelf the San Francisco JACLer is the submerged part the lative answers and more Continued from Front Page notified that two babies presents in a jam-packed, drowned continent once • A Telemaque Tale questions-and-mswers that are not considered by the had arrived instead of only 1SO-page paperback, deal• called Lemuria? He notes pop as he explores the su~ Cal-Vet Department to be one which she expected. Based on the author's own ing with the occult, mys• the people of the Jomon era jeet further. natives of California I did not ask what my memories of her Midwest terious and ancient civiliza• living in JaJml at least Mixing fact and fiction. girlhood. EleanorWong Tele• "It is time for California two older sisters and one tions. 12,000 years ago and then myth and mystery be maque's IT'S CRAZY TO can to recognize the injustice brother thought Gf us when He mentions UFOs and the discovery ofJomon pot• entertaining--as far out as suffered by the Japanese we were born, but they STAY CHINESE IN MINNE• astronauts, constantly rais• tery over years old in SOT A (New York: Thomas 5,000 the mind willalbw. Greene Americans and to rectify it must have thrught "DoutT Nelson, $6.95) offers a light• ing questions about what Peru. How did the pottery remains inquisitive. com• by at least granting them Ie-Trouble!" I was the hearted glimpse into the life we meekly regard as scien• get there, he asks, but more ing up with a final question their due military service copycat so whatever my of a Chinese American fam• tific fact, and with a steady amazing to him is that pot• in closing a kim of "believe benefits," Mori stated. sister did, I copied her. My ily~ the only one in a small tery looks like a modem it or not" compendium of . Prior to 1961, Japanese mom said we pulled off all town on the Iowa-Minnesota New musical detail space suits, down to quick his own: Can it be that the Americans who enlisted the beautiful silk tassles border-who run a restaur• release harnesses and riv• mysterious gods that pre• ant. One wonders how many at East West directly from the out-of• off the parlor lampshade. ets. What was their model? vailed in anciens Japan others who happen to be the Los Angeles are state relocation cam ps Continuing with the in• back as a war-devastated were not entitled to Cal• Also at age one we were only Asian American grow• East West Players pre• miere a new musical, Philip troduction, Greene pnr nation makes its comeback Vet benefits, even though playing outside when my ing up in a tiny town will em• pathize with Ching Wing, Gotanda's "The Avocado Kid ceeds to describe the pe0- -far richer than ever they were residents of Cal• - sister found an ax and im• mediately proceeded to try heroine of the 1I8-page or Zen in the Art of Guaca• ple of Yamato-the third dreamed of by the bandit• ifornia before they were it on my hea:l for size. book? As the only daughter. mole", Jan. 2~to play week• group inhabiting Japan generals?-HH. interned. Luckily, my brother had she waits on tables, takes ends till March 4. In 1961, the ornia A contemporary musical earlier pounded the ax on cash and moons over movie Legisla cted a spe• magazines. Yearning to be odyssey, "The Kid" is loosely c' e .gibility provision the sidewalk so it was wholly American, she means based on the traditional folk blunt. But head wounds Cookbooks by Kay Shimizu for the Japanese Ameri• to start life away from the tale character, Momotaro. produce more blood than I Cooking with exotic MUlhrooml (ShIItake. Oyster. Matsutake. Enoludake . Wood cans who enlisted - from restaurant-through the uni• The kid is born from the the gravity of the wound so womb of an avocado who . Ear & Common Mushrooms) . Beaubful color. spiral bound NEW 56 00ppd these relocation camps, versity in the fall. But it's al• Asian F1lvors. Ever popular basic text . 221 pp Taste·tested Japanese & Chillese my morn thought she lost so the summer she sees the seeks the meaning of life and recipes Illustrations ..... 592Sppd thereby granting them full culture of old China flower in makes friends with Bigfoot Gourmet Wok Cook~. Dynamic color Over 50,000 In pnnt EISY to use 54 2Sppd benefits as established by me for sure. She had to run to the front of the house Midwest America. and Dodo Bird. Jlpanese Foodl forHelIth. Dramatic color photos New Ideas SS.OOppd the State of California Weight Control with Asian Foodl.Onglnai woodcuts, 92 pp Bright OfBnge/hght "I .believe the 1961 Leg• and around the fence to get The author has written green cover Lo-Calreopes...... 55 00ppd Allin Cookbook tor Jrs. Beglnnerl. Color plates, dlus, simple recipes.$9 2Sppcl islature overlooked the to us on the other side. To several screenplays and this day I have a scar on books. numerous short stor- sion on HumanRights, hvmg • ADDRESS CORRECTED problems of the immediate Order from Shinizu, P.O. Box 455, campbel, Ca 95008 my scalp and CI1 my eyelid ies and articles. She is pres- with her husband and daugh• descendants born in the re• ently with the U.S. Commis- ter in .-H.H. location camps and, there• as souvenir of this inci• fore, introduced AB 148 in dent. an effort to bring this par• Perhaps other twins ------ticular group oomewhat in• could write more "Twin to parity with all other vet• Grins" anecdotes for one . DON'T BELIEVE US ..... erans," Mori concluded. and all to enjoy reading. BEUEVE OUR REVIEWS: " ... graphically exqui ite chronicle of Asian American ." Lo.\ Angeles TIlTle~ " .. .it i not merely a book ... it i ' knowledge and pirit and de tiny." S,m francISCO (Oil mal " ... a beautiful book, one worth inves'ting in." Pawdena GaUlle " .. . no one hould pa up 'In Moveme!1t'." EaSI We .1 1 (oumal The Japanese " .. . the kind of publication one wi hes had twicc it 158 page ." PaCl/lc CillUIi American " •.. <1 more revealing image of oursclvc than is vi ible in the clutter of circumstances undcr our Story no es." HawtJlJ Obs£'rvn Published by IN MOVEMENT: A Pictorial History of A ian Di lion Press America/by Visual Communications. Minneapolis . I I Ordcr your copy today; $7.70-160 pp. Budd Fukei trcasure it forever. of the Seattle Post·lntelligencer .--=-= ..... _____ E3_ ' "Should be required reading from the moment students are expect• ing to grasp the elementals of a democratic society."-Emmett Watson, Post -I ntelligencer. IN MOVEMENT " Much has been written about this gross persecution of innocent Paperhack 15 00 per book people (the Evacuation) . . . and Budd Fukei tells us again, succinctly Hulk ;II1J hook tore ralc a\'allahh: and with Information. also about Jaoanese culture in this excellent slim vOlume."-Larry Rumley, Seattle Times. 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Jan. 1. 1979. AAJOinted 0 the • Military board b)' 8)"OT Bradley earl~ p last year, he had chajred the Ut• Tule Lake plaque rites add tle Tokyo ~rruruty De\-e l~ mal JUStice '"'Cnne has al"a)' ment Ad\'lSIOT)' Committee for Arddtect been one of my dtief areas of four years before accepting the directory for time capsule lntem8tionaJ IWChitect ..,.• concerns." the Gardena JSeI CRA positIOn ... Mal,_d Toronto was Saaameoto ated. He "as fl elected to the EftJya S. Obki. daughter of Were you ever in Tule Lake? named arctutect Planner with rul committee Ias1 October b)' Prof.andMrs.S.W akamuraof architect HaroldHanen torede\• hI coU~ In the RepubJjcan Berkeley. CalIf. was appotnted a The JAOrTule Lake H ' torical Plaque dedi ati n elopCaJpry' en square under Caucu director in the SoctaJ Secunty committee \\~)Uld like to hear from former Tule La.k 1 a S360, COilba:t ~ under Kyle MaetaDI "as selected a Admmistration mBalrimore. She for a directory now being compiled b ' 181 . T ukam t , negotlatJOn. Monyama recently an Intern for 1l1e \\ hne House had been on the policy council designed a SJ(HnillJOn Metro T& press staff. worltintz m the Of• staff as a member of the Social 6815 Florin-Perkins Rd., Sacramento. a 9 ( 1 ronto Library .., the Japanese fIce of Media LaaisJn and g1\;ng Secunty Secretariat 383-3906), Canadian Culture Centre HIS 1l1e \\ hite House pomt of per• Directory will be u ed to infOlm former 1 ident of firm aJ!IO completed a majOr re• spective. Curren~ ' m a gO\'ern• • Honors the dedicaticn plans and program no\! et for unday, de\'elopment projeCt m M I8IT11 . mental masters program at USC. TIle Tom TlRD clan was re• F1a he was a former student body united recently to mark the lOOth May 27. at the wartime camp ite. vice presIdent at UClA. and has birthday celebraoon of the Che• Mr . T ul

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